hi my name is inge haugen and i'm here to do a module on an intro
hi my name is inga haugen and i'm your librarian this module is specifically designed for virginia
cooperative extension master gardeners but anybody who finds this information
useful is absolutely welcome to it this is an introduction to publicly available resources
specifically tailored to extension master gardeners but i definitely repeat anybody who
finds this information useful is welcome to use it these are publicly available resources for all
again i'm inga haugen and i'm your librarian i'm not an attorney um which matters sometimes when
we start talking about details of different types of licensing around resources you may have seen
some of my other modules around those aspects i probably could have taken that out for this
presentation but i'm still not an attorney so the links for what we're going to go
look at are available here and so now let's go live to be able to go see those resources
out on the web so the first link that we have there is a resource guide that has been crafted
by yours truly and some of her colleagues at the virginia tech university libraries these
resources are available for everyone and so we have created this research guide or subject guide
to be able to have all of these links in one space so we can direct people towards them
you should feel free to share this link with anyone that you think could benefit by the
information that's provided here i have my screen set at 150 to be able to make it more available
and easy to see on the recording this is probably not what you will see immediately
when you come to the page it's more likely the page will look something like this
but because i want for you to be able to see the resources i'm working with very clearly
i'm going to go back to a larger setting to make sure that the recording is useful to you
so within this space there are different tabs at the top of this resource
and all of these i hope are useful to you in different ways
the idea of open access is an important one and so open materials and open access
can speak to the idea that these materials are
appropriately available at no cost so this is copyright compliant
this is appropriately licensed these materials are designed to be available to the public
the information that we have on this libguide is very very broad
we have open courseware for teachers we have open source software in different ways
and then what i think of is more of a traditional resource that comes into data sets
and specific items that are available because this module is for extension master gardeners
i definitely want to highlight the agriculturally based resources that we have in this space
although i think the digital public library of america is super fantastic and could be a very
appropriate place for you to upload some of your own materials when you're talking about
the culturally relevant connections that you have to your community so some of the work that you do
might actually be appropriate to be able to put into dpla which is the digital public library of
america the databases that i specifically want to bring to your attention for your own research to
be able to find pieces of information are actually here so the biodiversity heritage library there
are scanned historic and biological literature pieces from major natural history museum libraries
botanical libraries research institutions um and the craziest thing about the biodiversity
heritage library is the time frame that it covers they have information and resources from 1480
until today pretty wild so i think that there are some nifty things that you can find in there
one thing to be aware of no matter where you find information you are an information
consumer and it is important that you keep your [ __ ] filter engaged to your bs filter
to make sure that the information that you're working with is appropriate considering all of the
options that are surrounding you and so when we're talking about historical information
there might be information that is no longer appropriate particularly concerning different
types of pesticides insecticides or different types of chemical use in in different different
locations so please be aware as you are accessing different types of resources that you must
be a information consumer who is considerate and you are going to use your filters to think about
the resources that are here even though i am suggesting that you use them and they're really
good resources everybody can make a mistake um there could be inaccurate information that's put
forward accidentally so always make sure that you are being a very savvy information consumer
pubmed from the national library of medicine might not have anything to do with what is interesting
to you but maybe it does maybe you want to be able to teach about histamine response to
different types of plants and so the information that you seek would actually be contained in more
of a public health area and so there might be information within pubmed that would be of use
to you but i definitely want to make sure that you see pub ag from the usda and so there is all
sorts of agricultural literature within pub ag so public ag public agriculture uh that's where that
name comes from and then the plants database i think could be super cool for you so i hope
that you check out those resources to be able to find some nifty things in those spaces
additionally there are other types of repositories so a place where we collect different types
of information and so um the smithsonian institute digital library is gonna have some
really nifty items to be able to look at it's the smithsonian they always do a great job
and then there's a directory of open as access repositories and so that's a list of different
places that have that open access um model so you can go into that space and move forward
journals in particular as opposed to databases so i had just talked about databases and now i'm
going to talk about journals um and then the first thing is actually the directory of open
access journal doaj and that's not actually a journal in and of itself it's a listing
of open access journals and all things being equal i will most highly recommend doaj the
philosophical underpinnings of why they are doing their work something that i vastly appreciate and
i will lift up their um their work to be able to advocate for open access to resources and research
across the whole world so there's some really nifty stuff that you can find in doaj jstor
is more of a humanities types of things but it's not a comprehensive index of any types
of information but there's a lot of information that's in that space jstor
has a broad range of content but not the most recent content up until about the last
four to two years um it's essentially there's a wall there for uh content where you mainly need to
access that content in a different space and then eventually it will come to jstor to be open so
if you need to help a young one learn about something jstor might be a really great place to
start now agricola from usda is a different type of thing than pub ag but there are a whole bunch
of overlap in that space and i don't want to get too technical within the library aspect of things
but i did want to mention that agricola is the public catalog so it is the way to be
able to search all of the information and many times you can click through to be able to get
to the information itself but sometimes not so there may have to be another step after you find
something in agricola to be able to then search for it to get access to it in a different way
so those are the options that we have on the very first page of the publicly accessible resources
i invite you to take a look at the other tabs that we have here but i'm going to specifically
bring you to a different resource and this is the second link on your links handout
in the slide deck and this resource is called v tech works and it is the
institutional repository for virginia tech university libraries that's actually the
institutional repository for all of virginia tech and so that is a space where we have
essentially a digital library that allows people to have access to our awesome
work this could be another place where it would be appropriate could be appropriate for you to upload
your own materials if you've created something that you're really really passionate about and
you think is a really incredible resource and you want to share it for more people this could be
a place to be able to deposit your resource that you have created so other people have access to it
we are specifically doing outreach to more communities outside of virginia tech itself
to make sure that we are upholding our land-grant mission to be able to work with the communities
that we are supposed to support i highly encourage you to reach out to me if you want to connect in
any kind of way particularly if you're doing any kind of community work we have an entire team of
people that are connected to that and it is part of our forward planning to be able to reach out
coming back to the resources that are available within virginia tech's vtec works
i hope you can think about this space as a
place for different types of information and because we primarily support virginia
tech and that's where we've started our support structure to be able to help these researchers
there's a lot that happens in that way that's structured around the college system
and around the way that research and teaching happens at virginia tech
of course we have a tripartite mission which also means that we have extension
and so there's specific extension materials in this space that could be really useful for you
and so i'll invite you to look at the communities that we have in virginia tech and vtech works so
uh the college of agriculture and life sciences could be a great place for you to be able to
look for information there's over 8 000 pieces of information in that space
i hope that it is
something that makes a lot of sense to be able to look at the community of the virginia
cooperative extension and we've got almost 8 000 pieces of information in that space as well
and so those are ways to be able to browse into
what's available in those areas but you can also choose to
you can also choose to search so i had to decrease the size to be able to get to that search
option and so here let's see if we can find anything on butterflies
i like butterfly gardens so
here there is some information from a 2006 project um here's more a butterfly garden here we go
and so within this resource you can view it and open it and here we go all sorts of
all sorts of information the specifics of this resource are less important for me to show you
which is why i haven't tried to be able to show you the details of this resource than
just how to be able to click through to get to the resource itself so i invite you to be able to
play around with this and search within vtech works or go into our communities and collections
come on click go there oh doesn't seem to want to do that from this screen but i do invite you to
explore here there's some really nifty stuff um in this space so today we talked about
publicly available resources that the librarians at virginia tech think are useful and have
put together in a resource guide to be able to help you find some of those things and we also
talked about v-tech works which is virginia tech's institutional repository and there are places
in both of these spaces where if you think that you've got something that you want to be able
to add to the conversation and help out the next person that's going to be teaching about
butterfly gardens or whatever you've brought forward that has worked very well for you
we have options to be able to support you in that work as well
thank you so much for your time please feel free to reach out to me
using my contact information if i can support you at all